XMPP and/or BOSH signalling server, chat room, your username and password) required to establish a connection and to click on start/stop buttons in order to join or leave the specified room respectively. from which it’s possible to specify all the mandatory informations (i.e. The first convenient way is through a browser by using the Jitsi Meet control page available at the URL the Streaming Server itself is listening to (e.g. To start and stop streaming to a particular Jitsi Meet server (called videobridge), it’s enough to invoke the corresponding commands by means of the UV4L Streaming Server installed on the Raspberry Pi. Please refer to these installation instructions for more details. It’s necessary to install the required packages before proceeding: uv4l, uv4l-server, uv4l-webrtc, uv4l-xmpp-bridge and one video driver (e.g. The great news is that you do not need any browser installed on the Raspberry Pi to do this. Of course, other participants can be other Raspberry Pi’s. It’s also possible to automatically hear and see other participants if you have speakers and display (HDMI, touchscreen, etc…) connected to the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to UV4L it is possible to create or join an existing room and broadcast live video and audio to all the participants or viewers in the room from a camera and a microphone connected to the Raspberry Pi.

Some of its features are: encrypted by default, no account needed, invite by pretty URL Jitsi Meet allows you to create and join video calls over the Web (even as a simple viewer). If you do not already know what Jitsi Meet is, here is the official homepage.

How to join Jitsi Meet video conferences over the Web

Jitsi meet create room